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“A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed For All,” Sgt. Pepper’S Lonely Hearts Club Band: A Brief Consideration, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the 13th of 18 Beatles albums, released in the United States on June 1, 1967, has come to be regarded as one of the seminal artifacts of popular culture of the 20th century. This short paper explores aspects of this music that reached such a broad audience, in particular, some observations of the albums’ astonishing textual and musical diversity as well as less-obvious commonalities that bind the 13 songs with a logic and unity rarely found in popular music.

Songs Of Otterbein College - 1991 Revision, Otterbein University

Songbooks

No abstract provided.

Heidenröslein | 21-20500, Henry Leck

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Heidenröslein
D. 257 (Op. 3, No. 3)

Part Number:
21-20500

Previous Part Number:
HL-500

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
Unison

Music By:
Franz Schubert

Arranged By:
Henry Leck

Featured at:
2014 NW Kodály Educators Workshop

Ich Folge Dir Gleichfalls | 21-20501, Henry Leck

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Ich Folge Dir Gleichfalls
From "St. John Passion" (BWV 245)

Part Number:
21-20501

Previous Part Number:
HL-501

Price:
$1.95

Voicing:
Unison

Music By:
J.S. Bach

Arranged By:
Henry Leck

with opt. Cello and Flute

Jubilee | 21-20502, Richard Osborne

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Jubilee

Part Number:
21-20502

Previous Part Number:
HL-502

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SA

Lyrics By:
Stanley Adams

Music By:
Hoagy Carmichael

Arranged By:
Richard Osbourne

Live The Circle | 21-20503, Imant Raminsh

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Live The Circle

Part Number:
21-20503

Previous Part Number:
HL-503

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SA

Lyrics By:
Sara Sanderson

Music By:
Imant Raminsh

South African Suite - Treble | 21-20200, Henry Leck

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South African Suite
I. Tshotsholoza, II. Siyahamba, III. Gabi, Gabi

Part Number:
21-20200

Previous Part Number:
HL-200

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
3/4 - Part Treble

Arranged By:
Henry Leck a cappella

Featured at:
2014 TMEA World Music Workshop
2014 Southwest Division ACDA World Music Workshop
2014 National Conference for Choral Music World Music Workshop

South African Suite - Sab | 21-20400, Henry Leck

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South African Suite
I. Tshotsholoza, II. Siyahamba, III. Gabi, Gabi

Part Number:
21-20400

Previous Part Number:
HL-400

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SAB

Arranged By:
Henry Leck a cappella

Featured at:
2014 CA-MEA Annual Workshop

Words And Music: The Assembling Of Traveling West, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

This paper is a consideration of the art song as a unique collaboration of poet and composer, the result of which, rarely achieving a balance between the two, often resulting in a creation that comprises the predominant artistic vision of one or the other, with poetry usually getting short shrift. This discussion will examine how dfferent methods of text setting can affect the intended meaning of the poem, citing examples of poet-composer relationships. Then I will discuss how these concepts are utilized in my song cycle, Traveling West, settings of poems by Susan Strayer Deal, Marjorie Saiser, Hilda Raz, …

Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra, Roseane Yampolschi

Masters Theses

In one movement, the "Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra" is divided into five sections and a cadenza. It proposes to question the classical predominance of the solo instrument over the orchestra. A thoughtful distribution and diversification of roles performed by the soloist and the orchestra offers, as an alternative, a balanced interplay between these two protagonists.

Sections A and B supply material used in the other sections. Their main parameters are the predominance of some pitch intervals and the simultaneous use of different rhythmic organizations forming distinct textures. Section C stands quite freely from sections A and B for its …

Two "Mistakes" In Stravinsky's Lntroitus, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

During the 1950s and 60s, Stravinsky learned, mastered, and significantly transformed a musical language that was, for him, entirely new—the language of twelve-tone serialism. As the abundant compositional sketches from this period in the Paul Sacher Foundation make clear, this process was not always an easy one for Stravinsky. Indeed, the sketches show him groping for solutions to basic compositional problems, including particularly the problem of creating meaningful vertical harmonies from the essentially linear nature of the twelve-tone system.

Trumpeter Swan (Score), Gary Smart

Music Faculty Research and Scholarship

This piece was originally recorded for Capstone Records in 1990. At the time, this beautiful bird was disappearing from the American West and was on the endangered species list.

The piece is in two movements. The first is “nesting music”, the second takes flight, and moves through several adventurous episodes, but finally settles back into the opening serenity. The work ends with echoing calls fading into silence.

Variation Procedures In Northern Ewe Song, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

The major organizational principle of Northern Ewe song is one shared by numerous African, Oriental, and European musical traditions: a small number of models (variously described as "basic shapes," "archetypes," "background structures," "basic designs," "core patterns," "deep structures") is transformed in a wide variety of ways during performance. Variation takes place on different hierarchic levels both within and between songs and includes practically all of a song's dimensions (rhythm, interval, register, contour, harmony, and so on). This principle, although widely demonstrated in the literature on African song (see, among others, Jones 1976; Kauffman 1984; Schmidt 1984; and Erlmann 1985), is …

Variants On The Holiday Season, Gary Powell Nash

Masters Theses

Variants on the Holiday Season is a symphonic poem for full orchestra. This composition is based on five Christmas songs including three Medieval tunes, "Nowel Syng We Bothe Al and Son," "Riu Riu," and "Two French Dances," along with "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Deck the Halls." Most of the music is derived from motives, rhythms, harmonies, and interval patterns of the original songs. The harmonies employed are created from the modes of the original tunes. Although there is no program supporting this work, it is considered a symphonic poem because it incorporates chimes, glockenspiel and sleigh bells which …

Concerto For Euphonium And String Orchestra, Steven Dale Sudduth

Masters Theses

The purpose of this concerto is to add substantial literature to the limited repertoire written for euphonium. Each of the three movements explores a different medium of music. The first movement is strictly developmental material based on a five-note motive taken from the end of an ascending melodic minor scale. The second movement uses an unusual five-voice passacaglia. The last movement is a cadenza shared by both the solo euphonium and the string orchestra with both parts having equal importance. Characteristic of all three movements is the blending of the voice ranges and the use of complex rhythms.

Unity | 21-20107, Daniel M. Cason Ii

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Unity

Part Number:
21-20107

Previous Part Number:
HL-107

Price:
$1.75

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Glorraine B. Moone

Music By:
G. Moone/Rev. F. Washington

Arranged By:
Daniel M. Cason II

Transcendent Journeys, Spiritual Frontiers And Analysis, Peter H. Fischer

Masters Theses

Transcendent Journeys, Spiritual Frontiers is a musical composition for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, violoncello, and conductor. The thesis consists of a reduced conductor's score and a written analysis. The texts are "The Moon and the Yew Tree" by Sylvia Plath, "Heart of Autumn" by Robert Penn Warren, and "Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. The composition consists of an instrumental prelude, followed by the three poems set as a song cycle.

The music features a different compositional technique for each song: the first song, "The Moon and the Yew Tree," uses mixed mode tertian sonorities; the third song, "Byzantium," …

Poetry: Toward Speaking For, Charles Hartman

English Faculty Publications

The article presents an essay that finds the relation among jazz, song and poetry. In 1985 Larry Coryell and Emily Remler released an album of guitar duets. Coryell pioneered the "fusion" of jazz and rock styles in the mid-sixties, and has developed that border area ever since. Remler, a more recently risen star, has more closely followed a jazz line of development. The differentiation of the voice of the poem, its discovery of its own potential multiplicity, is a point arrived at, not begun from.

Tone And Tune: The Evidence For Northern Ewe Music, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Abstract:

One of the most intriguing features of most African languages is that of tone, by which variations in speech tone generate different meanings (Pike, 1948, offers a valuable introduction to this subject and includes an extensive bibliography; Fromkin, 1972, is a comprehensive evaluation of specialised studies). In the Ewe language, for example, the word to [H] pronounced with a high tone means ‘ear’, as in To le venye (HLMM), ‘I have an earache.’ To can also mean ‘through’, Meto akɔnta me [MHLHML], ‘I have gone through the accounts.’ But as soon as the high tone is replaced by a …

Concerto For Saxophone And Orchestra: Score And Analysis, Jonathan Clarke Schwabe

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Spokane Conservatory Guestbook Catalog, Hans Moldenhauer, Mary Moldenhauer

Moldenhauer Archives

An alphabetically organized list of signers of the conservatory guest book. A short description of each signer's addition to the book is included. The list is not a complete list of every individual who signed the book.

Sinfonia Brevis (Original Composition), Jeffrey Lynn Miller

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Sinfonia Brevis. A work for orchestra (2d1 2 2 2 - 4 2 2 0, timpani, 2 percussionists, strings) in one movement divided into four sections (Andante Moderato, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro), with a duration of approximately 17 minutes.

Tonal Strategy In The First Movement Of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

During his summer retreat of 1910, Mahler sketched a five-movement symphony in F# major that was to be his tenth. He did not live to see the work completed. In spite of this, or rather because of it, the Tenth has accumulated a fascinating history, evident in the series of attempts to "realize" Mahler sketches, the best known of which is Deryck Cooke's "performing version."

String Sextet In Three Movements, Opus 7, 1986, Rhonda Lynne Nunes

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Professor C.F. Thiele Father Of Canadian Band Music, John Mellor

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis is a study of C.F. Thiele and his remarkable career as a musician, a Director of the famous Waterloo band, organizer of the equally famous Waterloo Band Festival, an entertainer and showman of international repute, and a businessman who founded the Waterloo Music Company. Founder and first president of the Ontario Amateur Bands Association, and co-founder of the Canadian Bandmasters’ Association, C.F. Thiele, or “Professor” Thiele as he was affectionately called, introduced the Ontario “Band Tax Law” in 1937 which enabled many of the smaller Ontario town bands to survive when funds were often unobtainable during and after …

"'Gi Dunu,' 'Nyekpadudo,' And The Study Of West African Rhythm", V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Rhythm has remained the focus of much study of West African music since the pioneering studies of Ward (1927), Hornbostel (1928), Waterman (1948), Brandel (1951), Cudjoe (1953), Merriam (1959), and Jones (1959).

String Quartet, No. 2, Edward M. Smaldone

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Three movements (Vibrant, Exalted, Recitative: Scherzo) for two violins, viola, and 'cello. Part I of this dissertation is an essay entitled "Linear Analysis of Selected Posttonal Works of Arnold Schoenberg: Toward an Application of Schenkerian Concepts to Music of the Posttonal Era."

Molly Bloom Scena Ed Aria, Ron Mcfarland

The Ron McFarland Collection

Composition written for mezzo soprano, clarinet, viola, and piano.

Suite For Piano, Ron Mcfarland

The Ron McFarland Collection

Suite musical composition written for piano. Segments written on a chorale theme include Prelude, Fugue, Chorale, Burlesque, and Toccata.

Emily Dickinson's American Garden Songbook, Ron Mcfarland

The Ron McFarland Collection

Composition includes music written for Soprano, violin, piano, and clarinet. Live recording has been supplemented to coincide with this composition.